Kalanidhi Maran

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Kalanidhi Maran, born 1964, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network which owns television channels, FM radio stations, and newspapers in South India. He got into the business at the age of 27, when satellite broadcasting took off in the early 1990s^[1] and started his career with the freelance newsmagazine Poomalai in Tamil. He is the son of the deceased leader Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi, and the brother of Dayanidhi Maran, India's ex-Minister for Communications and Information Technology.

He was a 1999 recipient of the International Young Business Achiever award from the Worldcom group, New York. Kalanidhi Maran was also among the few representatives at a roundtable with visiting U.S. President Bill Clinton.^[2] He was India's 20th richest person ranked by Forbes.^[3]

Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on April 24, 2006, with 10% of the shares widely held and 90% still owned by Maran.^[4]

Maran entered the prestigious Forbes list of billionaires in 2007. He is now ranked 349th in the world.

Contents 1 Early life 2 TV channels 3 FM stations 4 Print Media 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Early life

• Graduate of Loyola College, Chennai.
• Received MBA from the University of University of Scranton.
• Working for Kunkumam in the late 1980s.
• Started own monthly video newsmagazine, Poomaalai, in 1990.
• Founded SunTV on April 14, 1993.

[edit] TV channels

Tamil

• Sun TV
• KTV
• Sun Music
• Sun News
• Chutti TV

Malayalam

• SuryaTV
• KiranTV

Telugu

• GeminiTV
• TejaTV
• AdithyaTV
• Teja News
• Gemini News
• Gemini Music
• Gemini Cable Vision

Kannada

• UdayaTV
• UsheTV
• Udaya2
• Udaya Movies
• Udaya Varthegalu
• Udaya News

[edit] FM stations

SFM

Tamil

• Suryan FM - Chennai - 93.5 MHz
• Suryan FM - Coimbatore - 93.5 MHz
• Suryan FM - Tirunelveli - 93.5 MHz
• Suryan FM - Madurai - 93.5 MHz
• Suryan FM - Pondicherry - 93.5 MHz

Telugu

• Visakha FM - Vishakapatinam - 105.6 MHz
• SFM Hyderabad - 93.5 MHz
• SFM Tirupathi - 93.5 MHz

Kannada

• SFM Bangalore - 93.5 MHz

Hindi

• SFM Bhubaneshwar - 93.5 MHz
• SFM Jaipur - 93.5 MHz
• SFM Indore - 93.5 MHZ

Shareholder of

• Red FM (India)

[edit] Print Media

Tamil

• Dinakaran - (morning daily)
• Tamil Murasu - (evening daily)
• Kungumam
• Mutharam
• Vannathirai
• Kunguma Chimizh

[edit] External links

• Homepage of Mr. Kalanidhi Maran retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.
• Homepage of Sun Network retrieved on 11 Feb 2007.

[edit] References